Becker's Healthcare March 22, 2023
Information security leaders from Pittsburgh-based UPMC and Burlington, Mass.-based Tufts Medicine told Becker’s they’re fighting data breaches by working together.
They recently joined a consortium with six other health systems aimed at better assessing and managing third-party cybersecurity risk. The Health 3rd Party Trust Initiative and Council uses HITRUST IT security standards.
“If each third party hears from one of us or hears from us independently, they may say, ‘Yeah, but I’m not interested in pursuing this,'” said John Houston, vice president of information security and privacy for UPMC. “When a whole bunch of us comes together as a group and says, ‘The stakes are high in healthcare, if you want to do business with us, the big players, you...
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